Health care costs
Subtitle: causes, effects & control
By: [edited by] Bernice R. Hofmann.
Contributors: Hofmann, Bernice R.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers; Nova Science Pub Inc
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781604569766
Subjects: Medical economics; Medical care, Cost of; Health Care Costs; Delivery of Health Care -- economics; Quality of Health Care -- economics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Commentary health technology : moral hazard, inefficiencies, and solutions / Read G. Pierce, Kevin J. Bozic, Philip R. Lee; title: The future of health-care quality in the United States / Brandon Roberts; title: Short communications the elasticity of physician supply and medical malpractice litigation in the United States / Brandon Roberts; title: How do the drug ads and other factors affect the way dentists prescribe the medications and has prescription medicine increased the overall cost of health care? / Kim L. Capehart; title: The affects of contemporary and alternative medicine on healthcare and dentistry / Kim L. Capehart; title: America's weightiest health issue : not obesity, but bloated health care expenses / George Everett; title: Research and review studies analysis of number of days required for full-time care before death and the cost of care in the last month of life among the Chinese elderly / Danan Gu, Donghui Gu, Jie Zhou; title: Costing of primary care in developing countries : how much health can we buy for a few dollars? / Steffen Flessa, Paul Marschall; title: Costs of epidemiological changes in chronic diseases in Mexico / Armando Arredondo, Emanuel Orozco, Edson Servan; title: Deficit and health reform : two different phenomena? / Z. Darmopilova, Z. Zigova; title: Screening colonoscopy in Germany : a cost-saving analysis / Andreas Sieg, Hermann Brenner; title: A fully Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis using conditionally specified prior distributions / M. Martel, M.A. Negrin, F.J. Vazquez-Polo; title: Medication management and the older person / Maggi Banning; title: Training needs of healthcare professionals working with breastfeeding mothers in England and in Poland / Joanna Kosmala-Anderson ... [et al.]; title: The design and evaluation of a radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled inpatient safety management system / Chuan-Jun Su, Ta-Wei Chu; title: A note on estimating a mean cost of hospital stay with incomplete information / Isabella Locatelli and Alfio Marazzi.